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The political economy of food price policy : the case of Kenya
Nzuma, Jonathan Makau - 2013
This paper evaluates Kenya's food price crisis over 2002 - 11 using a political economy approach. Kenya's food prices have been high and volatile relative to world food prices. Moreover, domestic food markets are highly integrated while about 30 per cent of the changes in world market prices are...
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Liberia's gender-sensitive police reform : starting from scratch? ; improving representation and responsiveness
Bacon, Laura - 2013
After its 14-year civil war, Liberia worked with multiple donors and partners to restore security. This paper explores the Liberia National Police's innovative efforts to create a more gender-sensitive police service and describes the international and domestic support it received in doing so....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010193790
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Civil service reform : a review
Repucci, Sarah - 2012
Civil service reform is one of the most intractable yet important challenges for governments and their supporters today. However, civil service reform thus far has largely failed. Based on a review of existing literature, this paper presents principles for donors, governments, and advocates to...
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A new institutionalist analysis on emerging donorship : explaining the rise of the knowledge dimension in the South Korean aid regime
Yi, Jisun - 2015
This study aims to provide a neo-institutional explanation of why South Korea increasingly intends to share its developmental experience with the rest of the world. South Korea's knowledge sharing projects are the leading example of expansionary and self-defining efforts of its aid...
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Fiscal decentralization and efficiency of public services delivery by local governments in Ghana
Otoo, Isaac; Danquah, Michael - 2021
In this paper, we estimate the efficiency of Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Assemblies (MMDAs) in Ghana, and … investigate the impact of fiscal decentralization on the efficiency of local public goods and services delivery by MMDAs. Using … MMDAs' internally generated funds as a share of their total revenue has a positive influence on the efficiency of MMDAs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012545693
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Racial bias and the validity of the Implicit Association Test
Lee, Daniel J. - 2016
to study giving behaviours under conditions of implicit bias. I test this model by implementing a novel laboratory …. These results are indicative that implicit bias fails to overcome selfish interests and thus the IAT lacks external validity. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011458261
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Can "good" social mobility news be "bad" and vice versa? : measurement (and downward mobility) pitfalls
Iversen, Vegard - 2020
-known sources of estimation bias are not enough. This paper adopts the term 'perverse fluidity' from sociology to define the … estimate bias attributable to intergenerational poverty descents. Using simple experiments and data from India, poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012165563
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Poverty mapping based on first order dominance with an example from Mozambique
Arndt, Channing; Hussain, M. Azhar; Salvucci, Vincenzo; … - 2015
We explore a novel first order dominance (FOD) approach to poverty mapping and compare its properties to small area estimation. The FOD approach uses census data directly; is straightforward to implement; is multidimensional allowing for a broad conception of welfare; and accounts rigorously for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011379419
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Spatial and temporal analyses of women's wellbeing in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Nanivazo, Malokele; Mahrt, Kristi - 2015
This paper sets out to investigate the wellbeing of women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). It undertakes spatial and temporal comparisons of women's wellbeing using data from the Demographic and Health Survey and the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey. Using the multidimensional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307923
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Aid and investment in statistics for Africa
Round, Jeffery I. - 2012
Over many past decades countries in sub-Saharan Africa have received extensive bilateral and multilateral aid in support of the production of relevant, timely, and good quality data and statistics. But assessing aid effectiveness in the statistical area is a complex matter. Many datasets are...
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